Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-09
Chinese and Japanese Delicacies.

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Chinese and Japanese Delicacies.
Walking through the Chinese mar.
keith San Francisco, Says a writer in
Youths Companion, one sees some very
! queer articles Of food offered for sale
smallpats of soft cheese vanished am
Der brown and stamped with Chinese
characters; Wcli-pecled chestnuts,
with tiny slices of white cocoanut
wrapped ia neat little cornucopia, Of
/ glossy cabbage leaf; forty kind, of
dried nuts, fruits (wholc or sIiced),
roots, and banks.
Then there are living turtles and
! frogs; fowls and fish, alive, freshly
/ dressed, and smoked or dried; meats
half cooked in the carcass: wreaths Of
dried oysters strungon bamboo >plints;
abaloncs, like black models for dolls
hats; shrcds of white cuttlcfsh, and a
! hostof other edible curiositics.
Astrangcr might suppose that they
! We're simple curiositios, like the ancient
sticks OF barber-pole candy exhibited
in the windows Of country grocery,
or like the ham deliberately decorated
with gcometrical puzzles in jelly,-to
/ be admired, but on no account to be
/ carved. Not al all. They are re.
/ gardcd MS catable, and are eaten.
In fact. the Chinese and Japanese
eat everything that comes out of the
sea. All the fishes are good to their
taste, and are caught with great skill
scawccds of several sort are sent far
! into the interior, to be used in thick
euing soups, grayies, and buildings,
and are highly priced because they
| give relishing flavor of salt, which is
| a luxury beyond the reach Of most
Chinese peasants
This use of seawecd is almost ideu-
teal with the very common use of
Irish moss by Americans in making
toothsomc dishes. But, indeed, fishes
and scawccd are eaten the world over
but surely 40 other people eat the tide
Hat animals swallowed by the natives
Of ESQ. For example, the most
simply organized Of the class Of ani-
mails To which shells belong are called
ascidians. They grow sometimes ,ln-
civ, sometimes in clusters, and are
rooted immoyably to the sandy bot
tom, subsisting on what the currents
may bring to them.
In Japan there is an ascidi3n ttyu-
thia) which is as large as ones fist
II has no shell whatever, and is a gray,
fabhy, tulip-shaped sac, supported on
a short stalk But in spite of its for
bidding appearance, the Japs pickle Il
i'm vinegar aud use it as food.
Another animal growing between
the high and low watermarks on the
Japanese coast is u mudworm called
ISABELLA. 1t occupies hard, limy tube
of its own making, and gets its food.
when high tide comes up over lts hid-
ing place, by thrusting out n head
bushy with tentaclcs, and sucking in
currents of water loaded with minute
particles of nutrment. Out of this
wriggling creature the shore people
NAL soup which is true yermiceili,
not paste imitation Of little worms,
and il is said to taste as badly ss it
SMELLS
4 better dish is made from the soft
interior parts Of the sea-urchin, oS
cchimus large numbers of which lurk
along the rocky shores of the JapaucSC
arehpelago aud the coast of China.
have seen the Haidas and other
coast Indians Of the Pacific shores OF
British America dcvouring raw sea-
urehiu- with great gusto. crushing
them I'm their fists, sucking out the
rangv-rnlorcd cluster Of eggs, which
constitute the only edible part.
amounting to one or two tablespoons
rul.. and then throwing the horny ease
aside The minute eggs taste much